Are your little rugrats experiencing cabin fever? Pull this concept out of your hat and they’ll love you for it. This cardboard tube binoculars craft is a enjoyable technique to get excited for spring and summer. What’s even higher is that they’ll nonetheless use their binoculars whereas caught inside – just like our DIY Kaleidoscope for youths!
Cardboard Tube Binoculars
This is such a enjoyable and straightforward craft for youths, so let’s get began! You can most definitely substitute the camouflage felt with one other sample or stable colour to your cardboard tube binoculars.
These binoculars make an excellent camp craft or one thing enjoyable for the kiddos to do on a wet day. They are nice for chicken watching or a enjoyable indoor journey sport too!
Looking for extra enjoyable spring crafts for youths? Try these Cardboard Tube Birds! Bursting with fairly spring colours, these cardboard tube birds go hand in hand together with your child’s binoculars.
What you want
Tip: If you want the thought of the camouflage felt however can’t discover it, you may make your personal by gluing totally different shades of the identical colour onto a like piece of felt or development paper.
These step-by-step images and directions are right here that will help you visualize how one can make this undertaking. Please scroll down to easily print out the directions!
How to make Cardboard Tube Binoculars
- Lay felt, design aspect down, on the work floor and minimize felt in half.
- Roll up the cardboard tube inside the felt, gluing as you go. Trim off extra. Repeat for the different tube.
- Cut a strip of craft foam lengthy sufficient to go round the finish of the tube, about 3/4” vast. Glue the strip round the finish of the cardboard tube, lining up the felt seam with the craft foam strip seam.
- Secure with a rubber band. Repeat for the different tube.
- Cut one other strip lengthy sufficient to go round the reverse finish of the tube, solely this time minimize it 1/2” vast. Glue as above and safe with a rubber band.
- Place the tubes aspect by sides with the seams going through one another. Put a rubber band round each tubes to carry them in place.
- Use a pen to poke a gap in the aspect of the tube, about 1/2” under the 1/2” vast craft foam strip. Insert the finish of your twine into the gap from the outdoors of the tube. Bring it via the tube and tie a double knot. Trim off extra and gently pull the twine taut. The knot will preserve the twine from coming again out via the gap. Repeat on the different aspect.
- Pipe a beneficiant quantity of white craft glue in between the two tubes, lip over and do the different aspect as properly. Let them dry utterly, a number of hours or in a single day, earlier than eradicating the rubber bands and utilizing your binoculars.
I hope you take pleasure in the enjoyable expertise of making your very personal pair of binoculars. Let your kids use their creativeness, whereas instructing them the significance of recycling and reusing. Make this superior recycled craft, and you need to use them as a enjoyable Earth Day craft for youths!
You can discover tons extra cardboard tube crafts for youths like these Cardboard Tube Coiled Snakes, these Cardboard Tube Farm Animals, or this Cardboard Tube Batman.
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Cardboard Tube Binoculars
These cardboard tube binoculars are an excellent wet day craft for youths. They can use them to go chicken watching, as a camp craft, or as a nature craft!
Supplies
- 2 cardboard tubes
- 1 sheet camouflage felt
- Scissors
- White craft glue
- Craft foam to match your felt
- 6 rubber bands
- 40 ” piece of twine or yarn
- Pen
Instructions
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Lay felt, design aspect down, on the work floor and minimize felt in half.
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Roll up the cardboard tube inside the felt, gluing as you go. Trim off extra. Repeat for the different tube.
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Cut a strip of craft foam lengthy sufficient to go round the finish of the tube, about 3/4” vast. Glue the strip round the finish of the cardboard tube, lining up the felt seam with the craft foam strip seam.
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Secure with a rubber band. Repeat for the different tube.
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Cut one other strip lengthy sufficient to go round the reverse finish of the tube, solely this time minimize it 1/2” vast. Glue as above and safe with a rubber band.
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Place the tubes aspect by sides with the seams going through one another. Put a rubber band round each tubes to carry them in place.
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Use a pen to poke a gap in the aspect of the tube, about 1/2” under the 1/2” vast craft foam strip. Insert the finish of your twine into the gap from the outdoors of the tube. Bring it via the tube and tie a double knot. Trim off extra and gently pull the twine taut. The knot will preserve the twine from coming again out via the gap. Repeat on the different aspect.
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Pipe a beneficiant quantity of white craft glue in between the two tubes, lip over and do the different aspect as properly. Let them dry utterly, a number of hours or in a single day, earlier than eradicating the rubber bands and utilizing your binoculars.
This publish was initially revealed on this weblog on Feb. 21, 2011.
